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intervene appears far more related to national interests. Selectivity of Western<br />

intervention has heightened cynicism, especially in the developing world, towards<br />

claims of humanitarian necessity as justification for those interventions which the West<br />

does choose to undertake. For the US such selectivity was firmly enshrined in PDD<br />

25 39 , another consequence of the Mogadishu incident (see p268 below), which sought to<br />

re-establish national interest as the primary determinant of engagement in peacekeeping<br />

operations/humanitarian interventions.<br />

It has been an enduring difficulty for UN peacekeeping missions that the necessary<br />

means are rarely made available to meet the mandate. Moreover it has been a long-<br />

standing criticism of the West, and especially the P5, that whilst they have the major say<br />

in authorising military action by the UN, they do not significantly shoulder the military<br />

burden. In 2000 a Bangladeshi proposal went so far as to suggest that P5 membership<br />

should be linked to a commitment to provide forces. 40 The situation then was that only<br />

one ‘Western’ nation – Australia – appeared in the top ten listing of troop contributing<br />

nations ( see Table 4-1) and then only because of her commitment to a major UN<br />

operation – that in East Timor – very much in her own area of interest.<br />

Nation Total Troop Contribution to UN Operations<br />

India 4507<br />

Nigeria 3439<br />

Jordan 3400<br />

Bangladesh 2362<br />

Ghana 1906<br />

Australia 1710<br />

Pakistan 1209<br />

Kenya 1197<br />

Poland 1077<br />

Nepal 1037<br />

Table 4-1: Top Ten Troop Contributing Nations to UN Operations in 2000 41<br />

The P5 response to the Bangladeshi proposal was unanimous: whilst they would<br />

continue to contribute a larger proportion of the costs of UN interventions and were<br />

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